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Sentient beings is a technical term within Buddhism, broadly denoting beings with consciousness, sentience, or in some contexts life itself. Sentient beings are composed of the five aggregates, or skandhas: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness.
1 The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness. 2  n. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought. 3  n. The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.  n. The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.